New "Meet Kerri Walsh's Windows Phone" advertisement

The Windows Phone team has published a new advertisement for the platform on its YouTube channel, showing three-time gold medallist in Beach Volleyball Kerri Walsh and her family. The commercial shows the Walsh household making use of Windows Phone, including Kid's Corner and Microsoft Office. Featuring major advantages of Windows Phone is proving to be an effective way to show off what Microsoft has to offer.

Carrying on the celebrity campaign, Microsoft are continuing to push handsets into hands of not only consumers, but well known faces to help promote the platform. Not only that, but the company is also focusing on family life instead of just the individual. Pumping the audience to the backing track "Levels" by Avicii, it's bound to be a hit with trendy teenagers. That's a good thing.

Am I missing something here, Microsoft release this ad for WP8 on there YouTube channel, this would be the same channel that google is actively trying block on WP8 phone and we don't have an official app on our phones to view this, I really must google, sorry, bing 'ironic' :-)

This is off subject, but I had to repost it....
Microsoft should block Google from W7-8! That would really bite their ass.. Sure 90% of the world would go nutz at first, but once they saw the price for a Mac, and started to use Bing, in time they would forget all about Google. Trust me, the world would move on. If Google can block their services from a OS, then MS should be able to block its OS from their services! Seriously, if this were to happen MS would rule the entire computer landscape desktop, and mobile!! If Google keeps playing around MS is going to get in that ass,, I hope.. I smell a huge trial brewing.

Sorry, but this is a terrible idea! I would be up in arms over this too. I use Bing on my phone only because I'm forced to - I usually have switch to google in the browser due to terrible Bing results and sometimes switch to the GMaps app for walking & bike routes. On my PC, Google search and Google Maps reign supreme simply because they work the best. I use Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook equally. You really think they'd block YouTube?
MS have always been about partnerships and letting everyone in - let's not become like China or North Korea.

Who cares what she looks like... this isn't an ad for beauty products. She's pretty well known and they do a great job showing how the phone works for a family. Better than the Surface ads which hardly show what it does and spend more time trying to hypnotize you...

I don't get the whole advertisements on YouTube thing. Seems like you'd have to purposely look for them as opposed to them being on in the middle of tv programs. Sincere commercial though. Probably more features shown than most Windows Phone commercials as of late.

Totally agree. The whole Smoked by Windows Phone series and this kind of thing where the ads are 2 or 3 minutes long... they're sort of interesting but only if you know about it first. Windows Phone's problem is that most people have yet to be exposed to it, and 30 second TV ads and billboards are where that happens. I picked my brother up from the airport the other week and couldn't help but notice ads for the Galaxy S3 plastered EVERYWHERE. I mean, you couldn't walk 20 feet without seeing another poster. Ads like these are totally passive and totally pervasive. Microsoft is finally doing a bit more of this, but my thought is that they need to do what Samsung and Apple have been doing - massive, extreme amounts of ads in places people will naturally be exposed to them.

So a YouTube commercial but not on television (I haven't seen it in tv) and in usual MS fashion a bit late with this celebrity. Maybe a better time is when she and her partner were winning gold medals at the olympics.

This is a good series and this one hit it out of the park. Not only shows the phone, but pretty much hit all of it. Office on phone opening a document, then turns around and there is the Surface accessing the same doc. Skype, Kids& Corner, tap-to-send to transfer a photo w/o Bluetooth or popping it into a message or email. Nicely done.

wonder when we will see "My name is Alex Jones and this is my windows phone" except they would not do that because he called bill gates a chicken neck *******. I wonder what he would have on his phone anyways. Drudge report and weave perhaps? (Sarcasm)
Anyways, this is probably the best windows phone commericial i have seen so far without a doubt, and this would be a great one to show in movie theatures.

For those complaining that there is no lumia 920 in commercials... Its exclusive. They want to show phones everybody can get. The lumia 920 advertizes nokia, wp, and ATT. The 8X does all that but add in all major carriers.

Really liked the ad. Was short, highlighted the strong points and drew a personal connection with the Kerri. Didn't even know who she was until this ad and all I'd like to say is that this one hits the right notes.

Just a quick announcement, I got my 920 yesterday and man I simply love it!!!! Didn't put it down until 2:30am. And I love the new commercial. I think they need to show what Windows Phone can really do instead of showing ads.

Great ad... Need to get it out there through different channels! My one problem with the ad is this: the "Elmo calls" app that she opens doesn't actually work on the Lumia 920 she is using.... It freezes on the second intro/instruction page.... Comments indicate this might be a wp8 problem... But in a way, its false advertising! Yes, I'm bitter because my 13 month old loves that app and I can't get it to work! :-)